About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.

The judge ruled Texas prison cell temperatures, which regularly exceed 90 and 100 degrees, likely violate rights against ...

Judge Robert Pitman says inmates who sued the state could win their case but that the fix is not easy or cheap.

A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is “plainly unconstitutional,” but declined to order the ...

After a six-week federal funding freeze that decimated refugee services in Texas, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Monday released $47 million to the state’s refugee services ...

On February 26, the Texas health department reported the first ... But it is possible that further spread could demand federal officials get more involved — a development that would be worth ...

These are in addition to federal income taxes. Not all states have state income taxes. As of 2024, Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming don’t have an income tax.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed legislation Tuesday to avert a partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies through September, providing critical momentum as the measure now moves to ...

Federal Appeals Court Reverses Texas Death Row Inmate’s Conviction A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...

Thousands of federal workers have been fired by the Trump administration and DOGE. Now, some states are hoping to lure those workers into state governments. They include New York, Pennsylvania ...

That informant recanted her testimony in 2011, but neither a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals or a federal district court found that prosecutors had violated Holberg's constitutional right to a ...

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